$35 Jelly Firkin bags infuriate Herms owners: This one is cooler

It’s pouring on the Upper East Side, but even though she’s lugging summer’s hottest “It” bag, Natalie Mileo is fine with getting drenched.The Queens resident “used to freak out” if her pricey Chanel and Fendi handbags got a drop of rain or a speck of dirt on them.

But Mileo’s new must-have isn’t a “quiet luxury” staple with gold-plated logos and delicate Italian suede.It’s slime green and plastic.Say bonjour to the Jelly Firkin, a handbag shaped like the Hermès Birkin bag — a giant leather tote named for willowy ’60s singer Jane Birkin and long considered the ultimate status bag among fashion’s elite — but made from the fun, gummy material also used to make gym class kickballs. An evil twin to the famous French status bag, the Jelly Firkin has a devoted fan base that includes K-pop stars, aloof Hollywood auteurs, and even real Hermès collectors like Mileo.But while an actual Birkin costs as much as $100,000, the jelly version is just $35.“My friends won’t touch anything that isn’t designer, but I think it’s great,” Mileo, 40, who goes by the moniker “Bratty Natty” on social media thanks to her luxury shopping binges, told The Post.

“It reminds you not to take fashion so seriously.”Mileo said she gets “a lot of questions” when carrying her plastic lookalike around Manhattan.“Some people might be mad because they paid so much for a Birkin, and now there are these cute knockoffs,” she sighed.

“But I’m like, ‘Relax.It’s a joke… I have 10 real Hermès bags.

This one, I can actually take to the pool.’”Way back in the early 2000s, the Jelly Firkin had a cousin — the Jelly Kelly — built to look like an Hermès Kelly bag.It was carried by A-listers like Reese Witherspoon and sold at the legendary NYC department store Henri Bendel. But cease and desist letters from the Hermès legal team soon swarmed the shops.

By 2003, the bags were — in the words of Jelly Kelly owner and former reality st...